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Originally Posted by patrickt
My guess... and that's all it is, a guess... is that he was behind slow moving traffic, relatively rural road, very soft shoulders, maybe some sand/dirt on the broad, got fed up with the guy in front of him, he pulls out and over-accelerates, the rear wheels broke loose, his nose might not have been pointing forward, his rear comes out... fast, he drops a wheel or two off the side of the road, and at the point perhaps even Stirling Moss himself couldn't have brought it back. It then flipped sideways and rotated around to an end-to-end flip. If the top of his head was not scrubbed off by the road, then it may have been the fact that he only had a lap belt on, which lets you smash your face pretty hard in to the steering wheel and dash. That's just my guess, though....
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My guess was going to be a tornado picked up the car and took it for a ride. Your theory sounds more solid.
And I agree with the other guy, the roll bar did it's job. Loose harness, no harness, not enough height on the roll bar, etc. The driver side cockpit area appears rather well in tact.